AuthorBrice, James Coble, 1920-
TitleLaboratory studies in earth history / James C. Brice, Harold L. Levin, Michael S. Smith
Imprint Dubuque, Iowa : Wm. C. Brown, 2001
Edition 7th ed
Descript viii, 269 p.: ill. ; 28 cm

CONTENT

1. Sedimentary rocks in hand sample -- 2. Textural clues to the history of sediment -- 3. Sedimentary rocks under the microscope -- 4. Ancient sedimentary environments -- 5. Major tectonic settings of earth history -- 6. Sea-floor spreading and plate tectonics -- 7. Age relations and unconformity -- 8. Rock units and time-rock units -- 9. Ancient shorelines -- 10. Fossils and their living relatives: protists, sponges, corals, bryozoans, and brachiopods -- 11. Fossils and their living relatives: mollusks, arthropods, echinoderms, graptolites, and plants --12. Fossil indicators of age, environment, and correlation -- 13. A brief survey of the vertebrates -- 14. Geologic maps and geologic structures -- 15. Canadian shield and basement rocks of North America -- 16. Mountain belts of North America -- 17. The interior plains and plateaus -- 18. Igneous rocks -- 19. Metamorphic rocks


SUBJECT

  1. Historical geology -- Laboratory manuals

LOCATIONCALL#STATUS
Science Library : Reference CollectionQE41 L123b 2001 LIB USE ONLY